- Clay Culhane: If you killed in self-defense, then the law's on your side.
- Andy Meade: Well, seems to me you and your brothers made quite a name for yourself without callin' in the law.
- Clay Culhane: Quite a name. When they died at Marathon, one was 24 and other was 22. How old are you, Andy?
- Andy Meade: Old enough to be on my own. Same as it's always been.
- Clay Culhane: Andy, you told me that you've been alone all of your life. Well, I'm tellin' you, you don't have to be.
- Andy Meade: You know, it looks to me like you're trying to convince yourself as much as me, Mr. Culhane.
- Clay Culhane: Well, why don't you stay and settle the arguing for both of us.
- Marshal Gib Scott: Well, Latigo used to be a quiet place; now they start the day with a powder burning contest. You holding a gunfighter's convention?
- Andy Meade: I sure appreciate you tryin' to help me, but I'm going to try and let the law settle this thing.
- Wheeler Boone: The law? Only women and men with skim milk in their veins hide behind the law.
- Clay Culhane: What about Andy Meade?
- Fred Bryson: I don't owe him anything!
- Clay Culhane: Oh, yes you do! You know what your trouble is Bryson? You figure you got something coming for nothin'.
- Helen Bryson: That's not so! Fred's always paid his own way.
- Clay Culhane: Not this time! Here's his chance to make a payment on what he expects from the law and what does he do? He lies!
- Fred Bryson: You better shut up, Culhane!
- Clay Culhane: You lie because you figure the truth might cost you something. You'll let that boy hang out there so you can keep what you got! Isn't that it?
- Helen Bryson: No! That's not true!
- Clay Culhane: Mister, you're the murderer in this town, not Andy Meade.
- [last lines]
- Wheeler Boone: I killed the boy.
- Clay Culhane: Wheeler, more than one of us had a hand in it.
- Clay Culhane: I went to him as a lawyer, not a gunfighter.
- Marshal Gib Scott: Some of us have a little trouble telling the difference, Mr. Caulhane